Memory phrase for the character: 踞

踞

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Meaning squat, entrench, be based upon

Pronunciation

jù

Explanation

Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: reside/live 居 (Where the buttock 尸 [side view] becomes old 古, he has his residence.)

Mnemonic
 
If your feet (directly) reside you, you are squatting. (equally as when you are entrenching)

Radicals

足 foot
居 residence
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 Vocabulary

蹲踞 dūn jù  squat; crouch
盘踞 pán jù  to occupy illegally; to seize (territory); to entrench (oneself)
虎踞龙蟠 hǔ jù lóng pán  lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
虎踞龙蟠 hǔ jù lóng pán  

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